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NASA’s Opportunity rover is the longest surviving rover on Mars. On Saturday, February 17, it experienced its 5,000th dawn on a distant planet. It was only scheduled to see 90. But Opportunity's long journey st... Read This Article...

Canada, Japan, Europe, Russia are all major players in International Space Station
The Trump administration wants NASA out of the International Space Station by 2025, and private businesses running the place i... Read This Article...

Two cosmonauts took a spacewalk outside the International Space Stationtoday (Feb. 2) to tackle a long-awaited upgrade to the communications system on the Russian side of the orbiting laboratory. They also set ... Read This Article...

Russian cosmonauts are taking a spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) today (Feb. 2), and you can watch the entire 6.5-hour excursion live online.
Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin is pictured in a ... Read This Article...

Better understanding of Earth's thermosphere will help researchers protect satellites and astronauts.
NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) launched yesterday, and researchers hope it ... Read This Article...

WASHINGTON – The White House’s next budget request for NASA will likely include plans to end the agency’s operations of the International Space Station by the mid-2020s, a plan that could create new opportuniti... Read This Article...

Update: NASA TV is back on the air this morning after the government shutdown was lifted last night. You can now watch the live webcast here, courtesy of NASA TV.
Two NASA astronauts will head outside the In... Read This Article...

The company needs Air Force support
As long as the government shutdown continues, SpaceX won’t be able to test fire the company’s new Falcon Heavy rocket. The company needs support from the US Air Force to do ... Read This Article...

SpaceX and Boeing still have a long road ahead to crewed flights
NASA’s ambitious initiative to fly astronauts on commercial spacecraft continues to suffer from schedule delays, as well as questions regarding ... Read This Article...

Astronauts in space suffer from persistently elevated body temperature, which can reach up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) when they exercise, a new study has found.
Canadian astronaut Chris ... Read This Article...

Russia is assembling a new group of engineers who will be responsible for crafting the nation’s lunar exploration strategy. It’s another sign that a highly ambitious human space program is gaining steam in Mosc... Read This Article...

January 3, 2018
— NASA is marking its 60th anniversary year with a new commemorative logo.
The aviation and space agency revealed the design on its website on Wednesday (Jan. 3).
NASA revealed the log... Read This Article...

With its vast oceans and methane-filled rivers and lakes, Titan is a prime candidate for the search for extraterrestrial life. While our knowledge of Saturn’s largest moon grew tremendously thanks to the now-de... Read This Article...

A new year is bringing a new astronaut-themed attraction to NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
The all-new Astronaut Training Experience (ATX), opening in full in February, offers the pu... Read This Article...

Lots lost to space, but Mars’ rocks might have done something Earth’s didn’t.
Part of our fascination with cold-and-dry Mars is its warm-and-wet past. What was Mars like when it had liquid water? Did any lif... Read This Article...

An astronaut floats alone with the blackness of space behind him and the bright blue limb of the Earth below.
He's untethered with nothing but a NASA-made jetpack to protect him.
NASA astronaut Bruce ... Read This Article...

Pretty excited about your center-front seats for The Last Jedi? That’s still not as cool as being able to watch the new Star Wars flick in orbit. After a tweet from spaceflight reporter Robin Seemangal broke ... Read This Article...

Six people recently returned from an eight-month long isolation experiment to test human endurance for long-term space missions. Their “journey to Mars” involved being isolated below the summit of the world’s l... Read This Article...

WASHINGTON — As the two companies developing commercial crew vehicles prepare for test flights in the next 12 months, a NASA official said the agency expects those companies to be able to meet, or come close to... Read This Article...

This week, the scientists and engineers on the Voyager team did something very special.
At present, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is 21 billion kilometers from Earth, or about 141 times the distance betwe... Read This Article...

Interplanetary corporate synergy at its finest
Always willing to up the stakes of an already difficult situation, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said the first flight of his company’s Falcon Heavy rocket will be use... Read This Article...

SAN FRANCISCO – A new edition of an international space exploration planning document to be released early next year will offer an updated plan for human missions to the moon and Mars, emphasizing the role that... Read This Article...

The simplest explanation is also the likeliest.
It will be a glorious day when we finally get definitive proof of alien life. It’s going to be absolutely amazing, whether we make contact with a species tha... Read This Article...

Astronauts' blood changes in space — but that may not stop them from getting to Mars.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk often boasts about the imminent colonization of Mars, despite major human health problems that s... Read This Article...

LITTLETON, Colo. — NASA's next Mars lander just passed a big test ahead of its planned May 2018 launch.
The spacecraft, known as InSight (short for "Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy... Read This Article...

Next stop, space? A spacesuit from Final Frontier Design did its third round of Canadian flight testing last month in preparation for eventual space tourist flights.
A view of the spacesuit testing setup in... Read This Article...

NASA has successfully launched for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the first in a series of four highly advanced polar-orbiting satellites, equipped with next-generation technology an... Read This Article...

Mariner 9, the first spacecraft to orbit a planet other than Earth, travelled to Mars and returned images of the surface, including this one of a Martian shield volcano. The craft’s wide-angle and telephoto len... Read This Article...

A key safety system on NASA's Orion spacecraft — one that could save lives during launch — will undergo a major test sooner than expected, the agency announced last week.
The Orion spacecraft is similar to t... Read This Article...

“The Dream Chaser had a beautiful flight and landing!”
On Saturday, the Dream Chaser space plane completed a milestone in its development. During an “approach and landing” test, the spacecraft was dropped from... Read This Article...

From changing eyesight to an increased risk of cancer, human bodies face numerous challenges in space
We see it in science fiction movies all the time: humans settling on Mars or venturing into the far reaches... Read This Article...

A Cygnus cargo spacecraft will blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) this Saturday (Nov. 11) to deliver supplies and some fascinating science experiments to the Expedition 53 crew.
The Orbital ... Read This Article...

Though NASA says it’s working toward a date in December 2019
The first flight of NASA’s next big rocket, the Space Launch System, likely won’t launch until June 2020, though it’s now officially scheduled to ge... Read This Article...

The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration is always on the cutting edge when it comes to technology, and many of the medical advances made both on the ground and in orbit help keep explore... Read This Article...

WASHINGTON — NASA awarded contracts Nov. 1 to five companies to examine how they could develop a power and propulsion module that could become the initial element of the agency’s proposed Deep Space Gateway.
... Read This Article...

Some astronauts have experienced eyesight problems after going to space, and a disruption in the body's cerebrospinal fluid could be the reason.
Many astronauts have experienced problems with their eyesight in... Read This Article...

Somewhere, 254 miles above us, an astronaut is probably printing something.
Ever since the International Space Station (ISS) welcomed its first residents in November of 2000, there have been printers on boar... Read This Article...

When Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt left the lunar surface for the last time in 1972, many viewed the moon as a dry and barren world, with little to offer beyond flags and footprints for ... Read This Article...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is making strides toward bringing its rock-boring drill back online.
On Oct. 17, Curiosity pressed its drill against a Martian rock for the first time since December 2016, as part... Read This Article...

A distant sun-like star may have devoured a dozen or more of its own Earth-size planets, new research shows.
Researchers named the star Kronos, after the Titan of Greek mythology who ate his own children out... Read This Article...

NASA astronaut and Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik will spend one full orbit photographing Earth from the International Space Station on Monday, Oct. 23, and he is inviting people around the globe to shar... Read This Article...

For years, scientists have wondered if dark, crater-like features on the lunar surface might be entrances to giant caverns carved long ago by flowing lava. Researchers from Japan and the United States have unco... Read This Article...

A study suggests that past temperatures on Mars could have sometimes peaked just above freezing, allowing meltwater to carve out distinctive features.
An image of one of the many valley networks in the ... Read This Article...

It will take decades to sift through the reams of data from Cassini’s 13-year Saturn mission, but NASA researchers have just revealed some new insights.
While the Cassini spacecraft is dead — engineers deliber... Read This Article...

How awesome is a fidget spinner in space, where your body can do all the spinning you want? Pretty awesome, it turns out.
Astronauts on the International Space Station showed off their tricks in microgravi... Read This Article...

NASA is leading the next steps into deep space near the moon, where astronauts will build and begin testing the systems needed for challenging missions to deep space destinations including Mars. The area of spa... Read This Article...

Students at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington will speak with a NASA astronaut living, working and doing research aboard the International Space Station at 12:25 p.m. EDT Wednesday, ... Read This Article...

Europa, the outer solar system, and a lot of questions.
It sent back data until the last possible moment, struggling against the atmospheric forces that would soon vaporize the spacecraft into dust. Then, it... Read This Article...

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship returned to Earth yesterday (Sept. 17) after a nine-month stay at the International Space Station. At 10:16 a.m. EDT (1416 GMT), the Dragon splashed down in the Pacific Ocean loaded w... Read This Article...

The European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover will survey, drill, and take pictures of areas where ancient microbes may have lived.
The ExoMars rover, shown above in an artist's illustration, is expected to lau... Read This Article...

On Monday, at 12:31 p.m. Eastern time, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on a resupply flight for the International Space Station, and among its cargo, in addition to ice cream, was something else very cool: ... Read This Article...

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